. - The ultimate house hack, live in the small ADU unit and rent out the two levels of the main house on AirBnb in San Francisco (I would have thought STRs are oversaturated in S.F. but it worked for them and they stay fully booked).

These dishonest lawyers will start adding on all kinds of BS and start running the cost up so much as time goes on that you have no choice. 

A few clients or properties can suck up all of our time and attention and ultimately, prevent us from taking on more business. 

But, all payments with Baselane goes via Stripe gateway, and they apparently have no choice but to honor those requests due to their agreement with Stripe.

And that is the ultimate in being self employed and its cool when folks can pull that off..

I even have a cousin who is homeless - by choice (?!??).

It's always a personal choice everyone has a different perspective.   

Ultimately I don't agree though.

If you end up in Ohio and you end up in Cleveland you'll want to read The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods.

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